US Patent Issued to Corning Research & Development on April 15 for "High tensile strength fiber optic cable with low levels of aramid fiber" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,853, issued on April 15, was assigned to Corning Research & Development Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"High tensile strength fiber optic cable with low levels of aramid fiber" was invented by William Carl Hurley (Hickory, N.C.) and Martina Petra Richter-Buhling (Neustadt bei Coburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical fiber cable is provided. The optical fiber cable includes an outer jacket having an outer surface defining an outermost surface of the optical fiber cable and an inner surface defining a central bore. The optical fiber cable includes a plurality of aramid fibers located in the central bore, and the plurality of ar...